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Besides these, the nymphs and puparia are parasitized by a small, 

 pale yellow Chalcidid. From 20-35 adult Chalcidids were seen on a 

 very badly infested leaf either resting or in cop. The parasitized puparia 

 may be distinguished readily from healthy ones or those from which 

 the adults had emerged by the presence of clean circular holes on the 

 dorsum. On the 7th January 1911 the parasitization was as under :— 



In this species, too, there is no hibernation. The adults continue to 

 emerge during December and January and lay eggs. Like A. harodensis 

 •and N. bergii, this species too seems to be rather prejudicially affected 

 with hot winds, which blow in North India from the beginning of May 

 ■to the end of June. The adults as well as the nymphs are met with 

 in numbers on the leaves during the winter. 



16.— THE EICE LEAF-HOPPERS. 



By C. S. MiSRA, B.A., First Assistant to the Imperial Entomologist. 

 {Nephotettix bipunctatus, Fabr. and N. apicalis, Motsch.) 



The rice leaf-hoppers were reported for the first time damaging 

 Tice in the Sambhalpur District, Bihar and Orissa, in 1910. But the 

 hoppers appeared late in the season and consequently shght or no damage 

 was done. They again appeared in 1913 though late in the season and 

 did some damage to the standing crop of rice. The same year they were 

 also reported from Champhai in the Lushai Hills. Mr. J. Hezlett, LC.S., 

 Superintendent, Lushai Hills, Aijal, wrote on the 4th December 1913 :— 



" The flat areas under wet rice cultivation are small and are surrounded 

 by miles of jungle. The insect is well known to the Lushais and fre- 



